13 Drama Like The Real Has Come! To Watch If You Enjoyed This Series - OtakuKart (2024)

This year was surely an amazing year for the fans of dramas. From King The Land to several other upcoming shows, you guys have been busy for sure. But if you still managed to watch this K-drama called The Real Has Come! Then, we have some show recommendations to keep you even busier.

The Real Has Come! is a romantic comedy-drama which aired earlier this year. In the drama, Baek Jin-hee, Ahn Jae-hyun, Cha Joo-young, and Jung Eui-jae starred in the lead roles. The show follows the lives of an unmarried pregnant woman and an unmarried man who strikes a deal. They agree to enter into a false contract that ultimately causes more problems in the duos’ lives.

Baek Jin-hee plays the role of Oh Yeon-doo, a 33-year-old woman who is a star in the online lecture world. Ahn Jae-hyun plays Gong Tae-kyung, a 34-year-old man who is the third son of a wealthy chaebol family and also a highly skilled doctor.

Both, Oh Yeon-doo and Gong Tae-Kyung are living a happy life. However, when their paths collide, and a nasty plan takes birth in their minds, problems start to fall over their heads, like autumn leaves falling down.

The Real Has Come! It ended with fifty episodes, with the run time of each episode falling roughly around eighty minutes. Directed by Han Joon-seo, the show focuses on several topics such as pregnancy, family, relationships, ex-lovers, and love. The drama is also known as The Real Thing Appears, The Real Deal Has Come!, and Jinjjaga Natanatda!

If you liked this show, here are 13 dramas like The Real Has Come! that you might enjoy.

Bo-Ra! Deborah

Yeon Bo Ra is a popular love coach, but that’s not all. She is also a successful author who has written several romance novels loved by her readers. Lee Soo Hyuk, on the other hand, is a charming man and a publishing planner. While the former has a perfect love life, the other lives a dull and boring life with no possible future romance in sight.

When these two collide, they both start on the wrong foot. However, with their professional life almost tangling up, it’s hard for them to get rid of the other. Life does have its surprising ways to bring love, but with these two, will the cupid ever win?

• Release Date: 12 April 2023 – 25 May 2023
• Episodes: 14
• Duration: 1hr 10min
• Original Network: ENA TVING
• Where To Watch: TVING, Prime Video

Call It Love

In this romance, K-drama called Call It Love, Sim Woo Joo’s life as she knows it takes a wrong turn after her father dies. She is driven out of her home by her father’s mistress and left all alone to survive. With too many bitter feelings in her heart, she decides to seek revenge and approaches Han Dong Jin.

Han Dong Jin is the son of her father’s ex-lover, who is a bit of a workaholic but a nice person nonetheless. Gradually, as she spends time with him, she begins to learn more about him and accepts he has a gentle but lonely soul. It’s hard not to love him, and when she begins falling for him, will her bitter feelings find a way to turn into love, or maybe not?

• Release Date: 22 February 2023 – 12 April 2023
• Episodes: 16
• Duration: 1hr 10min
• Original Network: Disney+ Hulu
• Where To Watch: Disney+, Disney+, Hulu

Crash Course In Romance

In Crash Course In Romance, we meet Nam Haeng Sun, a beautiful woman who has retired from her career as a national athlete. With her cheerful personality, she now owns a humble side dish store and is perfectly content with it. One day, she decides to look into a possible career in the private education field and meets Choi Chi Yeol. She finds herself drawn to him for some reason.

Choi Chi Yeol is a famous, hardworking private instructor and is often known as the “1 Billion Won Man”. However, his rapidly growing success has changed him into an aloof person. When Nan Haeing Sun and Choi Chi Yeol begin working alongside each other, they form an unlikely deep connection. However, will this friendship blossom into love somehow?

• Release Date: 14 January 2023 – 5 March 2023
• Episodes: 16
• Duration: 1hr 15min
• Original Network: Netflix tvN
• Where To Watch: Netflix

I Wanna Hear Your Song

What happens when something wrong occurs in front of your eyes, but you can’t help with anything? When a murder takes place, Hong Yi-young is the only witness. But as a timpanist who suffers from severe insomnia, she cannot recall a single thing about what happened.

Jang Yoon is a pianist in an orchestra and a tone-deaf person who tries to help her. Since Hong Yi-young only sleeps when she listens to a tone-deaf person sing, Jang Yoon helps with her insomnia while also helping her recall what might have happened during that murder. But desperate for answers, are they setting themselves up for something dangerous?

• Release Date: 5 August 2019 – 24 September 2019
• Episodes: 32
• Duration: 35min
• Original Network: KBS2
• Where To Watch: Kocowa, Viki

Love In Contract

Choi Sang Eun is THE perfect girl with beautiful looks, boundless charms, and talents. She works as a contract marriage master, transforming herself into the perfect partner for each of her clients who wish to remain single.

One of her long-term clients, the mysterious Jung Ji Ho, has been using her services every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. While her new client, Kang Hae Jin, a popular actor, uses her services on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Choi Sang Eun begins harboring secret feelings for both of them and soon finds herself torn between the matters of her heart and mind. But will she find a way when it comes to her professional as well as personal life?

• Release Date: 21 September 2022 – 10 November 2022
• Episodes: 16
• Duration: 1hr 5min
• Original Network: tvN Viki
• Where To Watch: Prime Video, Viki

Love With Flaws

Joo Seo Yeon is a high school teacher who teaches PE. As a girl living with three brothers, she despises flower boys and wishes to meet someone not so handsome. On the other side of this story is Lee Kang Woo, a handsome chaebol who pays keen attention to appearances.

Joo Seo Yeon’s compassionate heart hides her own dark stories, whereas Lee Kang Woo hides his scars from the past behind his arrogance. When they collide with each other, they are biased and reserved, but as time passes, they learn to understand the stories and scars behind each other’s cool and rough exteriors.

• Release Date: 27 November 2019 – 16 January 2020
• Episodes: 32
• Duration: 30min
• Original Network: MBC
• Where To Watch: iQIYI, Viki, Kocowa, Apple TV

May I Help You?

Former professional ping pong athlete Baek Dong Joo has started her first day at work as a funeral director. On the same day, she learns about her gift, or as she would put it, her curse. She can resurrect deceased people momentarily and talk to them with her touch. But the part that doesn’t sit right with her is that she must grant these “people” their last wishes, or it will bring bad luck to her.

Kim Tae Hee is the guy who has been hired by her boyfriend to break with her on his behalf. Their paths keep crossing following their first encounter, and with the nature of their jobs, their fates keep getting intertwined.

• Release Date: 19 October 2022 – 22 December 2022
• Episodes: 16
• Duration: 1hr 10min
• Original Network: Amazon Prime MBC
• Where To Watch: Prime Video

Men Are Men

Also known as To All The Guys Who Loved Me, Men Are Men revolves around Seo Hyun Joo. She is a competent career woman leading a Webtoon planning team who lives for her work. After experiencing repeated failures in her love life, she has given up on the whole notion of love. She is done with love and doesn’t want to waste another minute looking for her “Mr. Right.”

Just then, Hwang Ji Woo, CEO of a pharmaceutical company, barges into her life. On the other hand, is her friend and a Webtoon artist, Park Do Gyum. Between the two, who will win Seo Hyun Joo’s heart that has almost given up on ever finding true love?

• Release Date: 6 July 2020 – 1 September 2020
• Episodes: 32
• Duration: 35min
• Original Network: KBS2
• Where To Watch: Netflix, Viki, Kocowa

Not Others

Kim Eun Mi was a high school student when she got pregnant and decided to keep her baby. Now, she works as a physical therapist in her forties while her daughter, Jin Hee, all grown up, works as an officer at a police station. These two grew up together with no one else to depend on.

But despite their love, they can’t seem to get along with each other now. In the midst of this turmoil, Eun Mi meets Dr. Park Jin Hong, who complicates her life. Meanwhile, Eun Jae Won, the new director at Jin Hee’s workplace, makes things hard for her at work.

• Release Date: 17 July 2023 – 22 August 2023
• Episodes: 12
• Duration: 60min
• Original Network: ENA Genie TV Hulu
• Where To Watch: TVING, Viki

Once Again

Shin Jae Woo longs to change his destiny. Haunted by painful memories, he’s been carrying the guilt of his actions since 2007. It was the year he met Kang Ji Hoon, and fell in love with him beyond comprehension. But before anything could happen, fate got in their way.

Fifteen years later, he visits Jang Ji Hoon’s dorm and learns that he has traveled back to 2007, the year they first met. Glad for this second chance, Shin Jae Woo moves into the next room and tries to make up for his past mistakes. But will this chance take away Shin Jae Woo’s pain or add more to it?

• Release Date: 15 September 2022 – 6 October 2022
• Episodes: 8
• Duration: 25min
• Original Network: N/A
• Where To Watch: Viki, iQIYI

See You In My 19th Life

The popular show See You In My 19th Life revolves around Ban Ji Eum. As a person who has been reincarnating for a long time, she remembers the memories of her past lives. This makes her special as well as different from others. In her nineteenth life, she tries to find Moon Seo Ha, a man she met in her previous life.

Yoon Cho Won is mourning the death of her older sister and now struggles to maintain her bright personality. Yet when she meets Ban Ji Eum, she sees her sister in her.

On the other hand, there’s Moon Seo Ha and his secretary, plus his childhood best friend, Ha Do Yoon. They are as different as they could be, but both of them still share love and respect for each other as friends and co-workers. With these four, the story keeps following their friendship and relationships with each other.

• Release Date: 17 July 2023 – 23 July 2023
• Episodes: 12
• Duration: 1hr 10min
• Original Network: Netflix TVING tvN
• Where To Watch: TVING, Netflix

The Third Charm

The Third Charm follows Oh Joon Yeong as a 20-year-old who is a nerdy and smart student who lives a simple and plain life. He meets Lee Yeong Jae on a blind date. She’s a 20-year-old student but completely opposite from him.

While he likes to plan his day properly beforehand, Lee Yeong Jae works as an assistant hairdresser who only dreams of becoming rich someday. Oh Joon Yeong is sensitive and an over-thinker, whereas Lee Yeong Jae is an honest, hardworking girl and often times quite daring.

Persuaded by their respective friends to go on this blind date, they agree to meet and so begin their tale of love that expands over the years.

• Release Date: 28 September 2018 – 17 November 2018
• Episodes: 16
• Duration: 1hr 15min
• Original Network: jTBC
• Where To Watch: WeTV, Netflix, Viki

Young Lady And Gentleman

In the show, Young Lady And Gentleman, Lee Young Kook is a widower with three children who lives a good life. But truth be told, he still hasn’t gotten over his wife’s death. Park Dan Dan is hired by him as a live-in tutor for his kids, who agree to the job. Despite her harsh situation in life, Park Dan Dan still tries her best to have a bright and positive outlook on life.

As they spend time together, Lee Young Kook becomes attracted to her. However, with their dark and hurtful pasts, can they find a way forward together? Or will fate steal this one chance from them?

• Release Date: 25 September 2021 – 27 March 2022
• Episodes: 52
• Duration: 1hr 10min
• Original Network: KBS2
• Where To Watch: Viki, Netflix, Kocowa, Prime Video, KBS World

These are some of the must-watch shows, according to us, that can be watched if you enjoyed The Real Has Come! The above-mentioned shows are funny, witty, romantic, and dramatic, which means a total package of entertainment available on screens just for you.